Thank you, Rainer! It pulled me straight off the highway while I was heading for home, and the group was literally taken between sessions of wiping raindrops off the polarizing filter. I was hoping, however, that I could share it with you, and I am very glad you like it!

We in Virginia are threatened with gratuitous snow in our near future as well--but as Tarheels have always said below the border, "Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning!" The Carolina afternoons, however, can have some rain and wind--the 5:30 PM ferry from Currituck to Knott's Island (which I had proposed to take to return home yesterday evening) was cancelled because no one wanted to set out from Knott's Island in the teeth of 40 MPH winds to pick us up. I think they made the right decision . . . .

It was something of a surprise to find it resting quietly beside the field. Google of course does not share your enthusiasm, but perhaps his Dad could never afford a car. He will find, if his hi-tech driverless car arrives here with its hi-tech photographerless camera, that this is in fact a feature of the landscape--which may well be "visible" from Outer Space, brought to us by robot cameras in unmanned satellites . . . .